In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating, and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river’s water and the river’s smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is, therefore, sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year’s budget to riverside recreational facilities.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Argument claims that more budget to riverside recreational facilities will regain the popularity of water sports in mason city. For this claim, there are several assumptions must be accounted. Without considering these assumption, only budget can not help.
Number one, there is a saying about complaints from residents for the quality of river's water. What percentages of population of mason city complaints about dirty water should be accounted. If complaints come from the most of the people, it is okay. But it comes from a few people, budget can not help so much. Number two, surveys of ranking sports are not old. If it is old, in now days, several new land games can be popular among the mason city dwellers which should be accounted. otherwise taking care of mason river does not help to increase water sports popularity. Number three, modern technological sports such PC games and mobile games do not take place largely at mason city. If these kinds of game are popular among mason city's new generation, there will be surely decline of these water sports' popularity. Number four, in this days, people sit idle in their home instead of going into the city park, only because of no chance of playing these water sports. If now a days, the people spent their recreational time at city parks, there will be no need of cleaning river water. However, cleaning water will be good for environment and ecology.
In conclusion, the argument is flawed for the above mentioned implications and is therefore unconvincing. If the author had mentioned all relevant facts, the argument could have been considerably strengthened. To assess the merits of a situation or decision, it is essential to have full knowledge of all contributing factors otherwise this kind arguments remain unsubstantiated and open to debate.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 300 350
No. of Characters: 1474 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.162 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.913 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.659 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 98 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 64 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.647 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.768 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.471 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.464 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 214, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this assumption' or 'these assumptions'?
Suggestion: this assumption; these assumptions
... must be accounted. Without considering these assumption, only budget can not help. Number on...
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Line 3, column 485, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Otherwise
...ity dwellers which should be accounted. otherwise taking care of mason river does not hel...
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Line 3, column 485, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: otherwise,
...ity dwellers which should be accounted. otherwise taking care of mason river does not hel...
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Line 3, column 835, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ater sports popularity. Number four, in this days, people sit idle in their home ins...
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Line 3, column 973, Rule ID: NOW_A_DAYS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nowadays'?
Suggestion: nowadays
...hance of playing these water sports. If now a days, the people spent their recreational ti...
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Line 3, column 977, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a day' or simply 'days'?
Suggestion: a day; days
...e of playing these water sports. If now a days, the people spent their recreational ti...
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Line 5, column 400, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ain unsubstantiated and open to debate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 13.6137724551 15% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1523.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 300.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07666666667 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73540368745 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.543333333333 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.5703528237 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.6111111111 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.22222222222 5.70786347227 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.275078159439 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0849474465194 0.0743258471296 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695319080953 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139057807423 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118872781231 0.0628817314937 189% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.3799401198 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 12.3882235529 48% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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